Of course, Europe isn't all
Of course, Europe isn't all bad. They're a hell of a lot better than we are at recognizing and banning persistent organic pollutants. Here in the U.S. we don't seem to care enough about skyrocketing autism and cancer rates to properly examine the idea that maybe--just maybe--our saturation of the environment and our bodies with chemicals that were unknown to the Earth's 4.5 billion year old ecosystem until we created them during the past 100 years is a very bad thing. Not to mention the sudden appearance of hermaphroditic frogs with six legs and the disappearance of entire species' worth of normal frogs. And on and on. We sure do what we can to protect the chemical industry's bottom line though, don't we?
If the human race manages to survive this molecular onslaught, and doesn't mutate into tumor-laden idiocy, future generations will look back with outraged amazement at our innovation and our ignorance during this Chemical Age.
